My fish died enmeshed in a thread :(

[Sf1]

It was healthy and happy, Ammonia, Nitrite at the 0, nitrates very low too.

But it died, I found it heavenly enmeshed in a thread (I attached Java Moss), between the thread and the driftwood.

The fish (Platy) can die like that?

Thanks

 

[mrvincent]

Can be due to water parameters fluctuation, or a disease, or lack of oxygen.

If he was gasping at surface: Oxygen supply problem, may be due to ammonia gills burn, or only lack of O2 in water.

Is PH changing due to low KH value ?

Is water temperature changing often ? (While water change for example)

Did you put a chemical in the water ? (Bleach, tap water without dechlorinator) Sometime air freshners can kill aquarium inhabitants.

 

[Coyne]

Are you saying that the fish got tangled in some thread you were using to tie down some moss?

If so, that certainly unfortunate. I suppose the lesson to take away would be not to have excess thread or slack.

 

[Sf1]

Are you saying that the fish got tangled in some thread you were using to tie down some moss?

Yes
It was a very nice Platy, it doesn't even run or hide from my hands!

The new one is afraid of everything and move very-very fast... It can be due to acclimatization period? Or it always will be like this?

 

[Sf1]

mrvincent
The water was OK, the changes in the PH, GH, KH? Ill verify it today.
But normally I have:
PH - 8.0
KH - 6.0
GH - 161.1

Oxygene is OK also, I run my filter on MAX and use an airstone.

Water temps is 25-25,5. When I do water change it's drop to 24 and something...

Probable it just a bad luck... Already fish cannot be tangled in the thread like that...